This put the routing logic in Safari, but there was no way to check if the app was installed or not. How Do Universal Links Work in iOS?īefore Universal Links, the primary mechanism to open up an app when it was installed was by trying to redirect to an app’s URI scheme in Safari. After spending far too much time on it and given how poor the documentation is, we thought we’d share a guide on how to do it in order to save everyone else. Little did we know how complicated it would be to get it working. When Apple announced “Universal Links” in its WWDC pitch back in 2015, we were excited to incorporate it into the Branch deep linking platform. In fact, we’ve already written blog posts about How to Set Up Google App Indexing and How to Deep Link on Facebook, check them out. It’s a single link, fully configured to link to your app off of every channel (Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc) and be listed in every search portal (Firebase App Indexing, Bing search, Apple Spotlight). We created a single link that you can use everywhere: every platform, every device and every app store to drive users to your app. This was originally posted on July 20th, 2015 but has since been updated with the latest information.Īt Branch, we eat, breathe and sleep mobile deep linking.

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